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My seven year old son lovesl®^
baseball. I took him to see the
movie “The Babe Ruth Story” he
liked it.
When this motion picture was re
leased, it was laughed at and sharp
ly criticized by both motion pic
ture critics and baseball writers be
cause of its general atmosphere of
unreality, its sentimentality, and
of the way it turned Babe Ruth in
to a kind of unreal clown-hero.
Brief mention of a few episodes
in the picture can suggest its char
acter. There is one sequence of Babe
Ruth during spring training. Babe
hits a home run of record breaking
length. A father has brought a
crippled little boy to see Babe Ruth.
Babe, after hitting the homer,
passes by the boy, and says:
“Howya kid.” The boy stands up.
In other words, Babe’s “Howya
kid” produces a miracle. A paralyz
ed boy is cured.
During batting pactice at Com
iskey Park in Chicago, Babe
smacks a ball foul and it hits the
beloved dog of a freckled urchin.
The Babe is so stricken with guilt
that he grabs the dog and buy, and,
in spik«*d shoes and uniform, rushes
to a hospital and gets a doctor to
perform an emergency operation on
the dog. Babe inisx s the day’s
game. This is made the occasion of
a suspension of the Babe by Man
ager Muller Huggins and the im
position of a five thousand dollar
ifine on him.
During the world series of 1932,
a father phones Ruth, and asks for
an autographed ball for his critic
ally ill son. Babe immediately visits
the sick boy in Gary, Indiana. When
Babe appears, the father—a simple
man and probably a workingman
—becomes unbelievably fawning.
He could not have been more awed
if it were God instead of Babe Ruth
coming to see huu. Briefly the,
man i- obsequious.
Here we can see Hollywood glor
ifying itself. Again and again, the
Hollywood hero is treated as a
kindly deity, and simple people
fawn before him with obsequious
gratitude. This is, really, a pictor
ialization of the publicity stories
which Hollywood press agents
send out. It is advertising, and it
helps to explain one of the import
ant reasons for the kind of falsity
and sentimentality of with which
picture makers surround so many
heroes. They are advancing their
own interests.
When Babe Ruth is getting too
old to play any longer, he is pre
sented as tho he might be a stumble
bum. He can’t even catch a fly
ball hit directly to him. He falls
down like an actor trying to catch
a baseball. Ruth, in his declining
days as a player, was not like this.
A more important point in this:
Ruth does not act for himself as
every human being does. He has no
real motivation of his own. He hits
home runs and does everything
else for the kiddies, It is a known
fact that the real Rabe Ruth did
do many things for boys. But this
is different from a motion picture
vLich makes a clown out a real
person and then does not give him
his own motives, his own personal
ity, and his own weaknesses.
Illis is just false, totally false.
And When we present people false
ly we do not truly glorify them.
We take from them what is hu
man in their nature. Hollywood
considers that criticisms such as
mine are highfalutin’. It argues
that it gives the people what they
want. And it, in effect, says
the people want falsity.
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Labor Looks at Hollywood
that
this,
took
and
I, for one, do not believe
And I thought about it after I
my own son to see this film
learned that he liked it. But talk
ing to him and thinking of the film,
m.L point became clear. My own
boy, and many oth boys, would
have liked a picture about Babe
Ruth that was true and direct and
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Union Man Woul
Keep Doors Open
For All Students
Washington (LPA) Education
Director Mark Starr of the Int’l
Ladies Garment Workers Union
AFL, is one of five men who have
to recommend to Secretary of State
Marshall a policy on exchange of
students between the US and other
countries.
The group, which includes the
presidents of Princeton, Mass. In
stitute of Technology, and Vander
bilt University, as well as a profes
sor at Catholic University here,
voted a statement of principles. In
it they told Marshall they favored
keeping the doors open for ex
change of students from all coun
tries.
Getting down to the tough pro
blem of students coming from “be
hind the iron curtain,” the group
agreed that there are countries
“where thought police are at work,
and where the very fact that a
teacher has been allowed to con
tinue at his work is strong evid
ence that he has sacrificed his in
tellectual freedom to become a tool
of the Communist party for mould
ing young minds into its way of
thinking.”
The Commission is already
agreed that, when students' come
to the US on exchange visas, and
decide they want to remain because
their anti-Communist views would
send them back to certain death in
their homelands, they should be al
lowed to remain in the US.
Meany Appeals
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Calling upon every worker to re
cognize the wisdom of Gompers’
statement, to see to it that he is
qualified to vote, and to actually
vote this year, Mr. Meany empha
sized the tremendous stake which
the workers have in this nation.
He declared:
“It is the workers of the nation
who will suffer most if another de
pression comes upon us due to the
failure of Congress to solye our
present economic difficulties. If
war comes it is the workers and
their families who will have to
carry the greatest load both on the
fighting front and on the produc
tion line. It is the workers of the
nation who are today hardest hit
by the failure of Congress tp halt
the terrific rise in food prices and
to solve the nation’s housing pro
blem. It is the workers of the na
tion more than any other group
who have the greatest stake in the
future maintenance of our demo
cratic way of life.”
Culinary Workers Rack Truman
Washington, D. C. (ILNS).—
Heads of the Hotel and Restaur
ant Employes and Bartenders In
ternational Union have pledged
support to President Truman in
the presidential campaign. Hugo
Ernst, general president, and Ed
ward S. Miller, international sec
retary-treasurer, of the AFL affil
iate, told the President on a White
House visit that the union was sup
porting him because of his “cour
ageous attitude” on civil rights
and because of his vetoes of the
Taft-Hartley Act and two income
tax reduction bills. The measures
were passed over the veto.
simple, and that introduced more
of the atmosphere and feeling of
baseball and less of mere studio
conceived hamming. My son, for in
stance kept asking me if various
incidents in the picture were true,
and if they had happened in life
the way they did on the screen.
The point can be put this way:
Babe Ruth doesn’t have to be a
miracle worker whose very voice
cures paralyzed children in order
that he be made the subject of an
exciting film. And when he is turn
ed into such a celluoid miracle
worker, we can say that the movie
makers an* cynically playing with
the emotions of the boys and base
ball lovers of America whom they
pretend to glorify in this film.
This is Hollywood. This is it!
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to hire the handicapped,
SHIRT WORKERS SEE THE|
UNION FIGHT FOR THEM
Washington (LPA) A dozen
workers from garment plants in
Texas, Connecticut, New Jersey
and Maryland last week got a good
idea of how their union fights for
them in the intricate and torturous
channels of federal procedures.
In a little hearing room in the
Labor Dep’t building, representa
tives of the Wage-Hour Adminis
trator heard Vice-President Gladys
Dickason of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers-CIO, supported
by Research Director Lazare Teper
of the Int’l Ladies Garment Work
ers-A FL and by Sylvan Geismar
of Manhattan Shirt Co., argue for
the ACW’s petition to raise the
minimum wage paid by employers
to 75c an hour for workers making
cotton garments on government
contracts.
“I’m business agent for the Am
algamated in Salisbury, Md., where
there are 160 workers at a Manhat
tan plant,” plump, energetic Helen
Brittingham told LPA. “They are
getting a 65c starting minimum
now. We came up here to see what
happens.”
With her was Zella Gordy, chair
lady at the F. Jacobson’s shirt fac
tory. She’s been a union member
since the ACW organized the plant
seven years ago. Both of them were
impressed with their union’s case
—and figure that the Wages &
Hours Division will recommend the
increase for government, work.
Highlight of the hearing, as far
as two girls whose local paid their
plane fare from Texas were con
cerned, was the performance put on
by a Professor Van Sickle of the
economics faculty at Wabash Col
lege (student body of 520) in Craw
fordsville, Ind. (population, 11,089).
The professor (who was once fired
by a Congressional committee be
cause of his outlandish statements)
announced pontifically that “pre
sent wage rates in the south are
not substandard.”
Mrs. May Brewer of Dallas, and
Freda Jo Dali of Waco, where gar
ment workers start at a 50c-an
hour minimum almost laughed out
loud at that. Manufacturers in their
state have turned out millions of
dollars worth of army apparel in
the past 18 months.
They were still pretty sore when
they left for Texas, though, at his
charge that “the present demand
of the Amalgamated is as outrage
ous an attempt at war profiteering
as this country has ever witness-*
ed!”
Van Sickle, who is now in the
hire of the Cotton Garment Manu
facturers Ass’n of Nashville, Tenn.,
tried hard to evade questions* by
claiming he had to catch a plane.
However, Miss Dickason, Teper,
and the spokesmen of the Manhat
tan Shirt Co.—who support the un
ion’s petition—insisted that they
have a chance to challenge such
preposterous statements as his
claim that “least of all, workers in
the south need protection” of wage
floors.
Only original argument from the
professor came when he claimed
that “in this dangerous atomic age”
it might be a good idea to encour
age low-wage industries in small
towns—evidently in the belief that
they’d be less likely to suffer from
bombing in a future war.
Just as interested—at l«*ast in
the profiteering charges—were four
girls from Elizabeth,* N. J. and
Aldo Cursi of Connecticut, all of
whom sat thru the entire hearing.
Miss Dickason, in presenting the
union’s petition for establishment
of the 75c minimum when employ
ers are filling governnient purchas
ing orders, pointed out that the
prevailing wage in the industry
now is around 75c. It has risen to
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The Labor Dep’t did not give the|
name of the state involved, but|
warned that this new industry is from Poae Oar)
growing and is likely to turn up ini
Auto Workers Phone Installers 1
Poll Gives Win 11c Average
Truman Lead Wage Increase
I Milwaukee (LPA)—Democratic I New York (LPA)—After 411
(Presidential Candidate Harry Tm-Lj^i negotiations in which top
Iman won 83% of the votes cast ini. .,
poll Of its membership tabulated President Stan
hast week by the United Autn|l«y Bracken of Western Electric
IWorkers-AFL. He lead Republican ICo. took part, the Ass’n of Com
laspirant Dewey six to one, while |munfcations Equipment Workers
H'"r* W*'i?ce ch°i'e odlast week won an average of lie an
|only 3% of the union’s members.
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Altho President Truman has con-1
Isistently led in the AFL union’s (equipment company.
(quarterly sampling of its members’ I The pay raises range from nine
(opinions, the 83% figure is much Ito 15c an hour in “A” zones and
(higher than his previous support. (from eight to 14c an hour in “B”
Another interesting question in (zones. The new contract runs until
Ithe UAW-AFL’s poll was “What |Nov. 30, 1950, with a wage reopen
Iconditions of employment sought ling possible after Sept. 15, 1949
Iby unions do you value most?” Igiving the union the right to strike
lAbout 33% of those answering this lif a satisfactory settlement is not
(question said strict seniority on (reached.
|the job, while another 31% selected CIO President Phillip Murray
(the union shop. Only 11$ put high- (called on the Western Electric pre
|er wpges first, and almost as many, |sident to urge settlement, only a
|l'0%, chose pension plan demands, (few hours before the strike dead-
In answer to an inquiry as to (line. CIO Vice-president Allan Hay
mow the union can serve its mem- (wood played an active part in the
|bers, in ways additional to collec- (negotiations, which ended up in an
|tive bargaining, 60% of the replies (all-night session after which the
Isaid political action is important, (settlement was made public. More
while 32% declared for collective (than 25,000 phone installers are af
lorganization of purchasing power |fected by the agreement, about
thru consumer cooperatives. |70% of them in the “A” zone.
Gre&n Denounces rthe best made by any 8(411
TLfl AaFH VaII Meanwhile, the NLRB was wind-1 (Continued From Page One)
formation Bulletin of the Labor|. ,, ,.
peD’t |ions contract policy called for dis-| ^11 members of Local Union 201,
Thia “tnilnrino-” nf thn l»uised forms of the forbidden type Huntington park Calif are re.
This tailoring of the com is |of unjon secUnty. He cited the new|auestei to i,eDresent next meet
done in improvised sheds, using ex- |contract :n the New York nrintined^ri I
ceedingly dangerous power-driven try as Ji exlmpk of lTU’s K’ °Ct 13’ bal’°? 0IJ
rvw io rb.rto |,nru as examP,e OI 11 u 8 Ifor referendum vote of the trade
machinery, or is sometime done ((jesjre to bargmn good fa
ai th .At- Lo reneal the action of the 1948
with big butcher knives. And the |tornevs for the New York nrinters K rep?r 8‘:tlon. O1 15,4
v.. |lo*™ys i°r tne iNew i
There are other attractions in| Many women smoke a cigarette!
the south. For instance, electricity (the way they read a newspaper al
is cheaper thdre because of the|cuple of puffs or a couple of|
TVA. Little conceded that if New (glances and they’re through.
Hampshire would agree to cut his
electric bills and grant him a 90%
tax cut he might be willing to keep| Cambridge, Ohio—All members
a couple of plants open there de-|ar0 requested to be present at our
spite the higher labor costs. In*xt regular meeting, Oct. 13, 1948,
After the current hearings con-] Harry Malpass, inspector
elude, a report is made to Labor I Frank Campbell, trustee
Secretary Maurice Tobin, who can| :Robert.P. Vance, trustee
determine the new minimum wage ^Dales Allison, trustee
at 75c if the facts'presented war- jlCarl Christiarj, statistician
rant the change. Laurence Keates, guard
ofk
Labor Dept reports that bothk called the contract perfectly (resources to the disnosal of offic
1947 and again this year, state la-k.’u Randolbh declared ET5 w (‘18po s.al ot o™c,
kz.i nnncWnr Kaiiuoipri ueciareu.
bor inspectors have found consider-1 in the week, speaking be- |cost t0 themselves.
able numbers of young children |foi*e 5000 members of the Trade) Josiah Llewellyn president
some as young as eight years oldlUnion‘Council of the Liberal Party) Orvis Reese V
—operating the machinery andLn js*ew York, President George] recording secretarv
wielding the knives. (Harrison of the Brotherhood of| Theodore E Dowd
Even after warnings to operat- (Railway Clerks-AFL, and chair-1 financial secretary
ors of the new industry were given (man of Labor’s Committee for Tru-1
in 1947, the state inspectors this|nian and Barkley, added a signific
year found, in one shed, 12 children (ant item to labor’s indictment of
under 16 still working without |iaft. The Senator is himself a
certificates. One was only 11. By (newspaper owner, Harrison pointed
the time an inspector from the(out. Taft’s paper is the Cincinnati
Wage-Hour Division of the US La- |Times-Star.
bor Dep’t had arrived, the operat- ......
ors had moved to another state. 'd
Court Rules
many sac- (expensive units within the financial
(range of the great bulk of the
Senate Hearing
“The fact of such new construc-
(Continued From Page One) |tin might, therefore, not be suf
(ficient to justify a recommendation
turn out twice as much work. |for complete decontrol in the area.
The same day the Textron head (Therefore, if the recommendation
testified to this, the Wall St. Jour-|now before us were otherwise in
nal published a long article point-(accordance with law, we might
ing out that “the Textron episode (have been inclined to disapprove
is just the beginning” of what’s (the recommendation for lack of
going to happen in the textile in-(adequate supporting findings.”
dustry. Under the heading “Cotton The commanding general of the
Textile Plants Renew SouthwardLth Army, Maj. Gen. Thomas T.
Trek Interrupted by War” the(Handy, and Maj. Gen. James P.
Journal said that “bigger bills for (Hodges, commander of the Flying
labor in the north probably consti-(Division Air Training Command,
tuts the most important single item (both stationed in San Antonio, filed
turning the eyes of mill men south-(“friend of the court” briefs urging
ward.” (that rent controls be continued.
“Despite organization drives inb'hey indicated that, if the rent
the south,” the Wall St. paper said,|'i«ng were lifted, they feared
“only about 25% of that area’s cot-(higher rents would Seriously affect
ton textile mill workers are now|the DO,000 civilian and military I
unionized. Mills in the north are|p.*rsennel of the army in the area. I
practically 100% organized.” I
NOTICE LOCAL 122
In asking for the Textron investi-|to vote on asking for a referendum
gation, TWUA declared that “the(on the action of the 1948 conven
decision to close the Nashua mill (tion in giving our national officers
was not necessitated by poor bui- (access to our resources to defend
ness or falling profits. It is a re- (themselves in a court action, shall
suit of financial manipulation and|be repealed, and no money shall
nothing else.” (bt expended to defend any officer
(without a referendum vote of the
this point since 1937, when the Sec- (trade,
retary of Labor first set a min- James Coffey, president
imum wage at 37.‘5c. Now, she| Marie Adam^, vice president
pointed out that between 70 and] Lpe Woodward,
75% of all cotton garment workers] recording secretary
in the US are employed in shops] Elmer J. Lewis, I
with union agreements, the great] financial secretary
majority of them with the ACW. Earl Johnson, treasurer
in pay boosts from the phone
The contract is, according to
|ACEW President Ernest Weaver,
1 (company.” Union members, he add
led, will vote during the next three
levs in the Senator’s office, the weekejotatifyta^agreement.
board instituted injunction con
tempt proceedings against the ITU|
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UP case against the union]
(before Judge Luther M. Swygert in (tures in color which are produced
(Indianapolis. Newspaper big-shots (here.
IvICIj VVvl lll£vl v (from places as far away as Phila-| “We are proud of the fine ware
WAI *11 Llelphia and Texas were presented |we produce and of the good relat-
government witnesses against (ionships which have existed be
(the ITU along with the spokesmen (tween Local 7 and the management
|of Chicago publishers whose |of our Plant. They work with us
(typographers are still on strike. |and we work with them, both striv-
a city where sweet com has been "TU £rcsident Woo(lruff Rsn. ing to make our job bet’ter and our
coming o mar e in e new pne j0|d judge Swygert that ITU Iware the very finest which can be
aged’ form w.th the two ends the produced.’’
chopM off, you’ll want to know
system
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N()TICE U).AL 201
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primers lconventiOn in throwing open our
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IT'S HOT FOR DISHES
IT'S HOT FOR BATHING
IT'S HOT FOR CLEANING
IT'S HOT FOR HEALTH
Atlantic City (LPA)—Delegates
returned home last Week from the
convention of the Int’l Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers-AFL after
endorsing a scathing attack upon
the failure of the 80th Congress to
tackle the problem of adequate
housing for low-income groups,
Congress is guilty of “heeding
the real estate lobby” instead of
the needs of millions of citizens for
decent ho’mes, the nearly 2500
IBEW spokesmen declared. They
demanded that the next Congress
enact the Taft-Ellender-Wagner
housing bill, including a section
which would provide “a minimum
of 500,000 units of public low-rent
al housing.”
The electrical workers said that
“this is the only possible way to
secure decent homes for low
income families now living under
crowded, unhealthy slum condi
tions.”
Another convention action, urged
by President Daniel Tracy, author
ized the union to withdraw from
the AFL Building & Construction
Trades Dep’t and the new machin
ery for arbitrating jurisdictional
disputes, if the system does not
soon begin working more effective
ly. IBEW is more than willing to
arbitrate its differences with other
unions, its leaders asserted, but
they insist that the arbitration
machinery actually works for the
protection of all groups of work
ers.
The electricians voted down a
resolution calling for the 30-hour
week. It is not economically practi
cal or in the public interest at this
time, they said.
Among the many progressive
moves called for by the IBEW are
improvement in federal social sec
urity provisions, governmental de
velopment of northwestern power
Name
Address
Local Union No.
i Thursday, September 30, 1948
IBEW Assails Congress
Inaction On Housing
The above blank mtist be fot’warded at once to Secre
tary Chas. F. Jordan, Box 752, East Liverpool, Ohio
Deadline October 1.
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and adequate workmen’s compen
sation coverage for electricians and
other working on railroads.
One highlight of the convention
was a speech by President Albert
T. O’Neil of the Buffalo-Niagara
Electric Corp., which operates one
of the largest hydro-electric sys
tems in the world.
O’Neil recognized that the Taft
Hartley law is no boon to fair
minded employers. “The thought of
governmental interference in the
field of labor-management relations
is abhorrent to me,” he declared.
“The Americanism of your organ
ization has never been questioned,
even by the most rabid critics of
organized labor.”
Early in its convention the IBEW
heard AFL President ^William
Green, LLPE Director Joseph Kee
nan and its own President Daniel
Tracy call for maximum political
effort to replace the Taft-Hartley
80th Congress with one pledged to
protect the workers. The conven—
tion voted to continue its campaign
for the outright repeal of the Taft
Hartley law and the defeat of every
Taft-Hartley Congressman.”
President Tracy is a member of
Labor’s Committee for Truman and
Barkley.
Ford Assets Pass Billion Mark
Detroit (LPA)—Thanks to the
Massachusetts state tax laws, the
Ford Motor Co., which has a plant
there, had to Ale its annual bal
ance sheet last week. Ford’s total
assets as of Dec. 31, 1947 are valu
ed at the astronomical sum of $1,
025,733,000. This is the second time
in Ford’s history that the company
has been worth more than a billion
dollars.
ACCEPTANCE BLANK
I, the undersigned member of Local Union
being in good standing, desire to accept the nomination
for delegate to the American Federation of Labor con
vention.
ELEC